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Ivy Ross
Ivy is Chief Design Officer for Consumer Devices at Google.
Since 2017, Ivy and her team have launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning over 240 global design awards. This collection established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional, and undeniably Google.
Ivy has co-authored Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us. She has been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change. She has also been referenced in Ten Faces of Innovation, Rules of Thumb, and Unstuck, among other books. Ivy was a speaker at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit and has been cited by Businessweek as “one of the new faces of leadership.” In 2019, she was ranked ninth on Fast Company’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.
A renowned artist, Ivy’s innovative metal work in jewelry is in the permanent collections of 12 international museums. A winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Ivy has also received the Women in Design Award and Diamond International Award for her creative designs. Ivy’s passion is human potential and relationships.
Ivy believes in the combination of art and science to make magic happen and bring great ideas and brands to life.